Despite the injury toll, Melbourne had planned to repeat the exercise in the week before Christmas.

However, after receiving feedback from the players, the camp was cancelled on Thursday.

"The special operations camp was run by senior police officers - it wasn't a boot camp," Goodwin told the club's annual meeting as reported by the Demons' website.

"It was run by experienced people.

"Yes, it's had its challenges but we listen to our players and we listen to their feedback and we feel that when something's not right, we don't go ahead.

"We look for other avenues. We're adventurous and we will get there and we will work towards building hard-working, competitive, resilient and humble individuals and that's our mission moving forward."